fiberglass questions

gents,

Im building a cafe seat.

do i need to sand the fiberglass down to a completely smooth surface before i apply the body filler?

how many coats of body filler should i apply?

Thanks

No, you dont have to. I'd say put on one coat to fill in most of the voids and junk, sand that down till relatively smooth, then put on a very thin skim, then sand that for paint.

I havent done a cafe seat, but I've done a fiberglass bodied car...

No, you don't. In fact, I would do any smoothing/shaping of the fiberglass with 36 grit to make it go faster and give you a better mechanical bond for the body filler

Beat me to it :ohmy:

You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to get the jump on me!!

Especially now that I'm in Germany, its a 9 hour time diff to socal!

thanks guys